In Nouns^x, Hyphens^x, Prepositions^x

Hi, When she was 16-years-old a 16-year-old is a noun. 16 years old (ie no hyphens) is an adjectival phrase she ran away (preposition) from home and moved to London, then ( adverb) New York to work as ( adverb ) a nurse. During ( preposition) her time in New York, she kept in contact...

My try: 1. The neighborhood Elaine Bolt lived in was composed of modest 1930' bungalows mixed with occasional apartment complexes. Is "apartment complex" a compound word? I think yes. Whare is the main stress and the secondary stress? In compound words, stress is always on the first...

I think a preposition can only be followed by noun, pronoun, gerund, and noun phrase. Please have a look on this POST . Link: www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenMeaningThese-SentencesUsedPlayCricket/ *** /Post.htm Use v-b-x-x-v without hyphens in place of *** in the above...

Hi, Swann discusses this at length in his Practical Engllish Usage, sections 422 to 425 (Nouns in Groups) in my edition. It's best if you can read this, or some other good grammar book, as it's hard to summarize all his detailed points. Here are a few of his comments. The fisrt noun...

40-dollar job. Note the hyphen. Nouns as adjectives are singular: 10-minute break, ten-dollar bill, seven-year itch fall into the wrong hands-- this is the idiomatic phrasal verb, which cannot be manipulated. none that I know of = None (of the e.g. players) that I know of . Not that I know...